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than useless — in the teacher of scientific subjects. It is absolutely 

 essential that his mind should be full of knowledge and not of mere 

 learning, and that what he knows should have been learned in the 

 laboratory rather than in the library. There are happily already, both 

 in London and in the provinces, various places in which such training 

 is to be had, and the main thing at present is to make it in the first 

 place accessible, and in the next indispensable, to those who under- 

 take the business of teaching. But when the well-trained men are 

 supplied, it must be recollected that the profession of teacher is not a 

 very lucrative or otherwise tempting one, and that it may be advisa- 

 ble to offer special inducements to good men to remain in it. These, 

 however, are questions of detail into which it is unnecessaiy to enter 

 further. 



Last, but not least, comes the question of providing the machinery 

 for enabling those who are by nature specially qualified to undertake 

 the higher branches of industrial work, to reach the position in which 

 they may render that service to the community. If all our educational 

 expenditure did nothing but pick one man of scientific or inventive 

 genius, each year, from amid the hew^ers of wood and drawers of 

 water, and give him the chance of making the best of his inborn fac- 

 ulties, it would be a very good investment. If there is one such child 

 among the hundreds of thousands of our annual increase, it would be 

 worth any money to drag him either from the slough of misery or 

 from the hot-bed of wealth, and teach him to devote himself to the 

 service of his people. Here, again, we have made a beginning with 

 our scholarships and the like, and need only follow in the tracks al- 

 ready worn. 



The programme of industrial development briefly set forth in the 

 preceding pages is not what Kant calls a " Hirngespinnst," a cobweb 

 spun in the brain of a L^topian philosopher. More or less of it has 

 taken bodily shape in many parts of the country, and there are towns 

 of no great size or wealth in the manufacturing districts (Keighley, 

 for example) in which almost the whole of it has, for some time, been 

 carried out so far as the means at the disposal of the energetic and 

 public-spirited men who have taken the matter in hand, permitted. 

 The thing can be done ; I have endeavored to show good grounds for 

 the belief that it must be done, and that speedily, if we wish to hold 

 our own in the war of industry. I doubt not that it will be done, 

 whenever its absolute necessity becomes as apparent to all those who 

 are absorbed in the actual business of industrial life as it is to some of 

 the lookers-on. — Nhveteenth Century. 



The Bishop of Manchester remarked, in a sermon, dnring the meeting of 

 the British Association in that city, tliat Fcienco liad led Christians to discover 

 how very gravely the New Testament had been misrepresented by the popular 

 Christianity, and it had revolutionized the study of tlie Word of God. 



